simplextech Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 In the Z-Wave world I can upgrade device firmware on Z-Wave Plus devices that support the feature and for the vendors that release updates (HomeSeer, Aeotec, Zooz, Fibaro, etc). Is there any such capability with Insteon devices? Or is it a device replacement when there's a firmware bug?
lilyoyo1 Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 2 minutes ago, simplextech said: In the Z-Wave world I can upgrade device firmware on Z-Wave Plus devices that support the feature and for the vendors that release updates (HomeSeer, Aeotec, Zooz, Fibaro, etc). Is there any such capability with Insteon devices? Or is it a device replacement when there's a firmware bug? Insteon devices are not upgradeable.
paulbates Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 No. I’m not aware of firmware updates. But outside of a few failures over 12 years, I don’t have problems. Some newer firmwares have additional features I had one original Insteon hub swapped for a firmware problem, that’s been it Paul
simplextech Posted February 5, 2019 Author Posted February 5, 2019 Interesting.... I'll have to test something, but I was reading on another site of a firmware bug with the MSII when on battery the LED can't be turned off but when powered it can be? This got me curious if firmware was upgrade able to handle such things.
paulbates Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 Also keep in mind the very tight integration between and Insteon device and firmware. The Insteon protocol is tightly defined, and other than simplehomenet, there’s not multiple vendors trying to interpret an evolving standard with multiple controllers. Pretty narrow test parameters. Paul
paulbates Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 The new motion sensors are a fair comment, the simplicity model falls apart. My previous comment was mostly about switches
lilyoyo1 Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 At the same time, many insteon device firmwares are based on hardware revisions so using the wrong one can cause other issues.
simplextech Posted February 5, 2019 Author Posted February 5, 2019 Thanks for the info. I'm looking to Insteon for the stability/close nature of the hardware + firmware + protocol. With the introduction of the MSII where it's more like a multi-sensor I was curious about the firmware and how that is/was handled if at all or done by hardware revisions. Sounds like through hardware revisions and most "issues" are either very minor and can simply wait or be ignored or they are catastrophic and require device replacement which from the sounds of it are generally hardware failure problems.
Brian H Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 It probably has the five contact programming connections. Though Smartlabs has never provided the information to anyone. Even to UDI when they had their own PLM design in the works and where at one time promised the needed firmware data file or programmed chips.
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